Titan&Volfan4life
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Nice job OP and thanks for all the work you put in to try to actually get a serious football discussion going on VN for a change in this offseason.
What some call excuses are actually factual despite what they choose to believe.
Here's some other things to consider.
Last season our Vols were the youngest team in FBS and that's just a fact.
We had 23 true freshmen playing right out of high school and some were starters and that's NOT how any FBS coach wants his team to be on the 2 deep.
All the Dools recruits are not horrid but several have been recruited over with better talent so I believe we'll see some juniors and seniors used as backups only next season as more talent hits the field as starters and number 2's.
Despite what some will say, having more knowledge and in game experience is very important and at least several of last years true freshmen do now have some real game experience as sophs next year and we all pray none of them have the well known soph slump.
By normal standards of top programs we are still a young team when so many sophs and probably true freshmen will be in our 2 deep next season taking the places of some uniors and senors.
We now have verifiable proof that buTch and staff can recruit with the best but his 1st recruiting class was more Dools with buTch having such a short time to add on whatever he could get in such a short time which is why the ranking of that recruiting class was so much lower than the real Jones classes both ranked in the top 5.
2 more recruiting classes and we'll have 4 Jones true recruiting classes on the hill and by then we'll know lots more of what buTch and his staff can do.
Next season I expect 8 Wins and anything over 8 will be overachieving IMHO.
I'll expect more the following season with more talented depth and real game experience.
This is a total rebuild and I'm amazed at how fast this has happened and I still think buTch is 1 year ahead of schedule because of his great recruiting and being able to coach them up so fast to get 23 true freshmen last season to all making solid contributions.
Thank God we're finally on the right road back up the National mountain!
#BrickbyBrick...VFL...GBO!!!
What some call excuses are actually factual despite what they choose to believe.
Here's some other things to consider.
Last season our Vols were the youngest team in FBS and that's just a fact.
We had 23 true freshmen playing right out of high school and some were starters and that's NOT how any FBS coach wants his team to be on the 2 deep.
All the Dools recruits are not horrid but several have been recruited over with better talent so I believe we'll see some juniors and seniors used as backups only next season as more talent hits the field as starters and number 2's.
Despite what some will say, having more knowledge and in game experience is very important and at least several of last years true freshmen do now have some real game experience as sophs next year and we all pray none of them have the well known soph slump.
By normal standards of top programs we are still a young team when so many sophs and probably true freshmen will be in our 2 deep next season taking the places of some uniors and senors.
We now have verifiable proof that buTch and staff can recruit with the best but his 1st recruiting class was more Dools with buTch having such a short time to add on whatever he could get in such a short time which is why the ranking of that recruiting class was so much lower than the real Jones classes both ranked in the top 5.
2 more recruiting classes and we'll have 4 Jones true recruiting classes on the hill and by then we'll know lots more of what buTch and his staff can do.
Next season I expect 8 Wins and anything over 8 will be overachieving IMHO.
I'll expect more the following season with more talented depth and real game experience.
This is a total rebuild and I'm amazed at how fast this has happened and I still think buTch is 1 year ahead of schedule because of his great recruiting and being able to coach them up so fast to get 23 true freshmen last season to all making solid contributions.
Thank God we're finally on the right road back up the National mountain!
#BrickbyBrick...VFL...GBO!!!